On the 2nd of April 2022 I inserted the following text in the Britain section, but it was reverted by one mvbaron only 54 minutes later: "In 2006 David Coleman, a professor of demography at Oxford University, published an article called "Immigration and Ethnic Change in Low-Fertility Countries", in which he wrote: "This article explores the implications of the recent trends and projections of the ethnic or foreign-origin populations of selected European countries. It suggests that if the composition of these European populations continues to change as projected, the resulting ethnic and social transformation should be regarded as a "third demographic transition." On conservative assumptions, the foreign-origin proportions of these populations are projected to rise to between 15 percent and over 30 percent by mid-century with almost linear rates of change." Source: Immigration and Ethnic Change in Low-Fertility Countries: A Third Demographic Transition, by David Coleman, in Population and Development Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Sep., 2006), pp. 401-446 (46 pages), published by the Population Council https://www.jstor.org/stable/20058898". mvbaron claimed it was "irrelevant". I don't understand how an article about ethnic substitution can be irrelevant to the topic of ethnic substitution. I tried to reinsert the text, but in vain.Banderswipe (talk) 14:57, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
- I don't know why you are posting this here. If you want attention, this belongs on the article talk page. But of course you've done that. Doug Weller talk 15:50, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Note that in any case summarising an entire book to use as a source in an article is inappropriate. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 15:49, 16 April 2022 (UTC)